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Catalogue
- Year
- 1966
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- composition (irreg.): 11 1/2 x 8 5/8" (29.2 x 21.9 cm); sheet: 19 7/8 x 15 1/8" (50.5 x 38.4 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Horst Janssen
Artist
Printmaking
Horst Janssen was a German printmaker and draughtsman whose obsessively detailed pen and ink works mapped the interior life of the postwar psyche through distorted self-portraiture and narrative sequences. Working across etching, lithography, and drawing from the 1950s onward, he developed a visual language of psychological intensity that rejected both abstraction and socialist realism. His prints and drawings, characterized by intricate hatching, fragmentary bodies, and hallucinatory spaces, established him as a central figure in Northern European printmaking of the postwar period.
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Skeleton
1985 · Graphite and black and colored Conté crayons, with touches of colored wax crayons, smudging, and erasing, on pieced salmon laid paper, prepared with a white ground
Therapeutic Mask, from Paranoia Series
1982 · Pastel and graphite on cream wove paper (pieced at bottom)
Self-Portrait
1976 · Etching and drypoint on greenish-gray laid paper
Self-Portrait
1976 · Etching on tan wove paper
Füsli after Himself
1976 · Etching, aquatint, and drypoint
Routine Landschaft vor Holm
1975 · Aquatint with etching and drypoint in black on white wove paper
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- Horst Janssen
- Year
- 1966
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- composition (irreg.): 11 1/2 x 8 5/8" (29.2 x 21.9 cm); sheet: 19 7/8 x 15 1/8" (50.5 x 38.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1966-M064772
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- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
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- Status
- verified